The 50-State Campaign for Achievement Now (50CAN)

08/28/2026

This week the world lost an icon in the music — and literacy — world.

Born out of her father's inability to read or write, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has given more than just millions of books to kids over the past 30 years. It's given the gift of reading and unlocked imaginations across the world.

50CAN joins the rest of the world in mourning the passing of Dolly Parton, and we honor the significant contributions she made to children's education and literacy.

08/11/2026

Are schools meeting the moment when it comes to teaching data literacy in the age of AI?

According to a new survey by Data Science 4 Everyone and Mathematica, not yet.

Read more about the report's findings in this week's New Reality Roundup:

08/03/2026

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07/31/2026

Are our collective assumptions about school funding outdated? According to a new report from the Brookings Institute, they are.

Read how in the latest edition of the New Reality Roundup.

07/24/2026

07/22/2026

A parent revolt is brewing on screen time in schools. But are our only two options a full ban or a rampant overuse of screens in schools? 50CAN's Liz Cohen argues for a middle ground.

Read her new piece in the The 74

07/15/2026

Big news out of Delaware!

07/13/2026

In this week's New Reality Roundup, we are thinking about what it takes to have high standards for learning when the status quo is trying to obscure the truth.

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07/04/2026

Here's to the next 250 years of progress on American education.

06/25/2026

Introducing "Bookways: From Bills to Bookworms", our new policy brief on literacy and the science of reading authored by VP of Policy Liz Cohen.

Drawing on hard-won lessons from a half-dozen states, Bookways provides a policy map to finish the reading revolution that’s already underway, offering practical solutions to those problems that states can pursue no matter where they are on their literacy journey.